Seth England
Big Loud Mountain/Big Loud Shirt’s Seth England, Word Entertainment’s Rod Riley, and Warner/Chappell Nashville’s Ben Vaughn have all been named to Billboard‘s Top 40 Under 40.
They join young execs from Disney, UMG, CAA, Interscope Records, Spotify, SoundCloud, dick clark productions, and more.
Vaughn serves an Exec. VP role at Warner/Chappell Nashville. Under Vaughn, the publishing company earned ASCAP’s award for Top Country Publisher in 2013. He also signed a co-publishing deal with mega producer Jay Joyce, who as worked with Eric Church, Little Big Town, and The Wall Flowers, among others.
Ben Vaughn
Under Riley’s watch as CEO/President of Word Entertainment, Word Entertainment artists, including For King and Country, Chris August, and Sidewalk Prophets, have earned the Dove Award for New Artist of the Year three of the past four years.
England is Exec. VP at Big Loud Mountain/Big Loud Shirt, with heavy involvement in the success of Florida Georgia Line. The duo is signed to Big Loud Shirt Publishing, Big Loud Mountain, and Republic Nashville, and has sold more than 2 million copies of their debut album Here’s To The Good Times.
Rod Riley
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